Five sonic leaps that changed the sound of hip-hop
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2017
2 minutes
With their skittering grooves and their preference for original sounds over recognizable samples, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, as the production duo the Neptunes, helped remake hip-hop's sonic identity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (See related story: "They Redefined Hip-hop's Sound,
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